Band name:
“The Torch of Hymen”

I can’t get over how clever this is. “With some remarks on the use and advantages of” is *such* a 19th Century addendum to a title–and then the word “flagellation” comes after it! Both the meaning and the sound of that word are just perfect there. Absolutely hilarious.

Lubbock might work, too. The very presence of a porn crew in Lubbock will lower the local incidence of STI’s. Thanks to “I’m worth waiting for” curricula, Panhandle kids don’t use protection, and public health statistics show it. If nothing else, Lubbock is a place name amenable to innuendo, and it isn’t the only place in Texas whose name might inspire the screenwriters.

Westward Ho!

And some titles that need not be changed:
Leaves of Grass
Black Beauty

Foreignication: My Travels to Europe

And the Shakespearian classic… A Sale of Two Titties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_de_Riqueti,_marquis_de_Mirabeau

This is why the eighteenth century is the best century ever.

If you read French, you can find “The Curtain Drawn Up; or, the Education of Laura” online here:

http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Rideau_lev%C3%A9_ou_l%E2%80%99%C3%A9ducation_de_Laure

I don’t know how it compares to the English version, but you might find Robert Darnton’s _The Forgotten Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France_ an interesting read. It’s about “philosophical” books in the 18th century, which included everything from Voltaire and Rousseau to pornography. More or less a synonym for “illegal” books, then.

Hint: Whatever else she’s done for a living, Maggie McNeill is also a trained research librarian. If anyone can find obscure Victorian-era American porn, it’s going to be Maggie, and she seems to have trouble saying “no” to libertarian gentlemen who ask nicely.

How about:
War and the Piece
Huckleberry’s Finn
Givin’ Head Wilson

A few don’t need any modification at all:
Aaron’s Rod
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Man Who Corrupted Haddliburg

I’ll stop now.”

Oh, please, a couple more: David Copt a Feel, Oliver Twisted It

I thought those porn titles were hilariously retro, until I read Brad Hicks’ quaint Marxian analysis of the police state. He stills speaks in terms of “land owners and employers”. And using those potent tools of analysis, he’s got the Reagan years all figured out:

“A big part of what the 1980 election was about was an all-out revolt by everybody in America who owns even a tiny bit of land, or who employs even a couple of people, against those court rulings [Mapp, Miranda, etc].”

Sadly, I’d bet you that most of those titles censored for erotic content have almost nothing to get worked up about.

Partly an account of NYPD sexually assaulting women protesters at OWS, to set up male protestors to be accused of attacking the police, and also police injuring helpless people, but also a claim that the police only supported the rule of law in the US from about 1950 to 1980.